{"id":4333,"date":"2025-02-05T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:18:31","slug":"your-input-needed-kpbsd-budget-planning-community-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/your-input-needed-kpbsd-budget-planning-community-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Input Needed: KPBSD Budget Planning &amp; Community Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear KPBSD Stakeholders,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD) is facing a <strong>$17 million budget deficit<\/strong> for the 2025-2026 school year to maintain current staffing, programs, and services. The district is asking for your input to assist in making difficult decisions, to include potential reductions and eliminations of services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We value your input and invite you to participate in this process using the <strong>Balancing Act<\/strong> tool, an interactive budget simulation that allows you to explore funding trade-offs and provide feedback on district priorities. Your perspective as a stakeholder is crucial in helping shape these decisions. Please provide your input prior to the March 3, 2025, Board of Education meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Provide your input using the Balancing Act tool:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.kpbsd.org\/fy26-balancingact\">https:\/\/go.kpbsd.org\/fy26-balancingact<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, we encourage staff, parents, and community members to attend a <strong>districtwide budget development meeting<\/strong> in your area:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Homer Community<\/strong> \u2013 Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | 6:00 PM | Homer High Library<br><strong>Central Peninsula<\/strong> \u2013 Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | 6:00 PM | KCHS Library<br><strong>Seward Community<\/strong> \u2013 Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 6:00 PM | Seward High Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your voice matters in shaping the future of KPBSD. Thank you for taking the time to participate and share your input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>KPBSD Administration<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear KPBSD Stakeholders, The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD) is facing a $17 million budget deficit for the 2025-2026 school year to maintain current staffing, programs, and services. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/nikiski-north-star\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}